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Artist: Unknown
Portrait of a Woman, 1940s-50s. Signed Vera d’Angara, Italian-Russian actress
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of a Woman, 1940s-50s. Signed Vera d’Angara, Italian-Russian actress Technique: Oil on panel Dimensions: Height 59 cm x Width 58 cm Frame: Painted wooden frame The portrait...
Category

Mid-20th Century Art Deco Unknown Art

Materials

Wood, Oil, Wood Panel

Cuzco School - A Portrait of Archangel Raphael With Fish, 1800s, Oil on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
Anonymous, Cuzco School A Portrait of Archangel Raphael With Fish oil on canvas 1800s canvas dimensions 22.24 x 15.74 inches (56.5 x 40 cm) frame ...
Category

19th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1960's Amazing Colors Abstract Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Superb Modern British abstract painting dating to 1969. The work is signed with the artists initials "RG" and dated 1969. The painting captures an amazing array of bright and colou...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Unknown Art

Materials

Acrylic

Antique American Impressionist Southern Gold Framed Farm Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 12H by 16L. Wonderful subject and great color. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category

1960s Abstract Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Figurative Composition in Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Figurative Composition in Oil on Board Boldly colored abstract composition by an unknown Bay area California artist (20th Century)...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Unknown Art

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Antique French Copper Engraving - Doric Order Architectural Style
Located in Houston, TX
Beautifully-detailed antique copper engraving depicting a traditional building in the Doric Order architectural style from Recueil d'Architecture, 1780. O...
Category

18th Century and Earlier Unknown Art

Materials

Ink, Paper

Antique Rare American Hudson River School Original Frame Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A stunning 19th-century Hudson River School landscape painting, beautifully framed in an exquisite period giltwood molding.
Category

1890s Hudson River School Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Antique 19th century oil painting on canvas Genre scene, Gorgeous Frame
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is this amazing antique 19-th century original oil painting on canvas depicting a charming rural scene, capturing a moment of everyday life in the countryside. On the le...
Category

19th Century Impressionist Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Backstage Faithfull (1974) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Backstage Faithfull (1974) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Hoare/Express/Getty Images) 15th February 1974: English singer and actress Marianne Faithfull sitting in a dressi...
Category

1970s Modern Unknown Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Leonid Petrovitch Baikov (1918-1994) - Mid 20th Century Oil, At The Dock
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a substantial wooden frame. Bought from auction with Christies provenance. On paper.
Category

20th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Five mid 20th century Italian oil landscapes with figures, castles, Churchs
Located in Woodbury, CT
A very interesting set of five mid-20th-century Italian oils on copper. All five are classical landscape subjects and are signed Roger, though we don't know which artist with the n...
Category

1950s Old Masters Unknown Art

Materials

Copper

Nicely Framed American Impressionist Tropical Beach Scene Gold Giltwood Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 11H by 14L.
Category

1960s Impressionist Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Anton Gold (1914-1970) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Swabian Summer Landscape
Located in Corsham, GB
This vibrant landscape painting captures the lush greenery of a mountainous forest, with towering evergreens in the foreground and distant peaks in muted blues. The artist employs bo...
Category

20th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Abstract Geometric Composition with Paper, Fibers, and Acrylic on Canvas (Red)
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Composition with Handmade Paper, Fibers and Acrylic on Canvas (Red) Whimsical abstract composition by an unknown artist (20th Century). Red acrylic paint makes up...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Unknown Art

Materials

Jute, Acrylic, Washi Paper

Signed Vintage American Modernist Cityscape Framed Fauvist Palette Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 30H by 24L.
Category

1960s Modern Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
Located in Austin, TX
Candid capture of Boxing legend Muhammad Ali smiling with Malcolm X at an event. In 1962, Ali met Malcolm X, who soon became his spiritual and political mentor. Ali first met Malcol...
Category

1960s Contemporary Unknown Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Lady with a Red Parasol
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sheltering under a red parasol from sunny afternoon skies while passing through this lovely waterfront park, a woman could easily find renewal. She strolls along the Mediterranean sh...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chinese Theatrical Mask - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage chinese woodcut print depicting a theatrical mask. Realized in the mid-20th Century. Framed under glass.
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Art

Materials

Woodcut

Portrait of His Imperial Majesty Tsar Nicholas II
Located in PARIS, FR
This dignified lithographic portrait of His Imperial Majesty Tsar Nicholas II stands as a visual tribute to the last Emperor of Russia, created during the final years of Europe’s gre...
Category

1890s Unknown Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Manner of Abraham Hulk Junior - Framed Late 19th Century Oil, Alpine Village
Located in Corsham, GB
Manner of Abraham Hulk Junior (1851-1922). An idyllic alpine landscape with rustic wooden chalets nestled among lush woodland trees. The composition draws the viewer's eye along a wi...
Category

Late 19th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Victorian School 19th Century Oil - The Recruit
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming genre scene depicting a young man bidding farewell to his wife in a tavern. Next to him, two soldiers look on, amused at the apparent nerves of their latest recruit. Unsig...
Category

19th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir dancing with his harem attendees
Located in Middletown, NY
A joyful scene of lighthearted merriment in the palace of Jangahir Mahal Agra Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light weight cream laid paper, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (2...
Category

18th Century Rajput Unknown Art

Materials

Gold

Six Sons and Daughters of John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. Dedication of the John Wayne Elementary School. New York
Category

1980s Contemporary Unknown Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Ewart Oakeshott (1916-2002) - 1977 Oil, Liverpool Docks
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming scene depicting Liverpool docks on a misty day. Signed and dated to the lower right. Presented in a maple frame with a gilt slip. On canvas.
Category

Mid-20th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

19th Century Watercolour - Cattle by the Windmill
Located in Corsham, GB
This pastoral scene captures the rustic charm of a countryside landscape, with a weathered windmill as the focal point against a warm, hazy sky. The painting's composition skilfully ...
Category

19th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Watercolor

Fine 1800's French Oil Figures by Monastic Ruins Stream Bucolic Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Monastic Ruins by a Stream French School, early 1800's oil on canvas, framed Framed 15 x 19 inches Canvas : 12.5 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very go...
Category

Early 19th Century Old Masters Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Woman
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Plaster and gilded wood frame 47 x 40.5 x 6 cm
Category

Early 20th Century Old Masters Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Woman
Woman
$2,198
Antique 19 century Large Oil Painting on canvas, Female portrait, Dated 1879
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original antique 19th-century large oil painting on canvas painting depicting a portrait of a Lady in a long black dress, standing near a bright red curtain. The painting...
Category

Late 19th Century Impressionist Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

V. Reedy - 20th Century Oil, Flock At The Water's Edge
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. Presented in a part gilt frame. On canvas.
Category

20th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Romantic Painting French school Medieval Knight Lady Art nouveau 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
French school after 1890 The knight's farewell Oil on canvas 124 x 64 cm This painting is at once monumental, moving but very cheerful at the same time. Because the main subject, the knight's farewell to his beloved, represented in a tight framing shows a very naturalistic background with its meadow, its flowers, its wood, its river and its very beautiful colors. The painter is from the end of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century, and undoubtedly French as indicated by the canvas merchant's mark on the back of the stretcher (the Jules Chauvin house which was active at 33 rue du Dragon in Paris between 1895 and 1937). The style of our painting is romantic, even picturesque. The knight carries the “Reichsadler”, the imperial eagle of the Holy Germanic Empire and the lady a bag with different signs including bear paw prints. The style is naturalistic and reminds of the English painters of the 1890s inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites and Art Nouveau on religious and medieval themes and very close to nature with their decorations of meadows, flowers and wood. The English art historian John Christian spoke of the last English romantics about to these painters of the end of the century, Burne-Jones, Stanley Spencer and John William Waterhouse. We recognize in our painting the naturalistic motifs of the meadow, flowers, woods and river that we often see in Waterhouse paintings. As regards the composition, one thinks in particular of the English woman painter of Austrian origin Marianne Stokes...
Category

Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Still life
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Black wooden frame 37 x 45 x 3 cm
Category

Mid-19th Century Old Masters Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

1925 Solar Eclipse Winter Antique American Impressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 18H by 24L.
Category

1920s Impressionist Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Assicurazioni Generali - Vintage Offset Poster on Cardboard - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Assicurazioni Generali Vintage Poster is an original offset advertising print on cardboard by an anonymous artist of the xx century. There is The state of preservation of the artwor...
Category

20th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Offset

Sailing Boats in South of France Harbor Vintage French Oil Painting 20th Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sailing Boats French School, 20th century oil on board, framed inscribed verso framed: 20 x 24.5 inches board: 17 x 21 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very g...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Art

Materials

Acrylic

Early 20th Century Oil - Cart On The Woodland Path
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a wooden frame with gilt inner window. On canvas.
Category

20th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Sunset Cloudscape Gold Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract sunset oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 34H by 30L.
Category

1960s Abstract Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fine Classic British Sporting Art Oil Painting - Racehorse with Jockey Up
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Jockey Up' English School, 20th century oil painting on canvas canvas: 25 x 27 inches framed: 30 x 32 inches provenance: private collection, Dorset, England...
Category

20th Century Victorian Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large 1970s Abstract, Mid Century Modern, Oil on Canvas, MCM, Colorful, Vintage
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Appears to be unsigned. Untitled, circa 1970s Oil on Canvas 50" x 40 1/4" In very good original condition. A nice, large, vintage abstract painting full of color.
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original The Sea Master Herre på Skutan 1920 Swedish art deco movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Swedish movie poster, The Sea Master. (Herre på Skutan).. Archival linen backed in good condition, ready to frame. The USA silent movie was produced in 1917 but released in ...
Category

1920s Art Deco Unknown Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ashton Booth - Framed 20th Century Oil, Portrait of a Gyrfalcon
Located in Corsham, GB
A signed and dated 1976 oil on board portrait of a fierce gyrfalcon, scouting for prey in a winter landscape. Well presented in its original frame. Labelled verso.
Category

20th Century Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

The Road to Emmaus, German Old Master Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
German School, 1700s The Road to Emmaus oil on panel unframed: 24.3 x 17.5 cm (9.6 x 6.9 inches) framed: 34.5 x 28 cm (13.6 x 11 inches) Provenance: Swedish author and artist Amel...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Unknown Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Painting Italian Classical Landscape 18th ruin forteress Signed
Located in PARIS, FR
French or Italian school of the 18th century Animated landscape with a ruin Oil on canvas 27 x 33 cm (34 x 40 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower right "1772 / Contencin? / fec...
Category

1770s Italian School Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

'Historic English Chapel Interior, ' by Unknown, Watercolor Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed and matted 16" x 19" watercolor painting by an Unknown artist depicts an historic English chapel interior. The interior of the church features the large stained glass window pane...
Category

19th Century Realist Unknown Art

Materials

Watercolor

Rare 19th C. Antique Silver Judaica Shabbat Candlesticks Polish Russian, Szekman
Located in Surfside, FL
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Austro-Hungarian Antique Judaica Pair of Shabbos hallmarked silver candlesticks, 12" tall, 16 troy Dated 1895 Viennese or Austro Hungaria...
Category

Late 19th Century Rococo Unknown Art

Materials

Silver

The Sundews - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
Category

19th Century Modern Unknown Art

Materials

Lithograph

Nicely Framed Antique American School Bustling Summer Beach Impressionist Ocean
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted antique American impressionist beach scene painting. Oil on board. Signed. Handsomely framed in a giltwood impressionist molding. Ready to hang excellent cond...
Category

1930s Impressionist Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Cubist Nude Dancing Portrait Framed Signed Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American cubist nude woman dancing/erotic painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period modernist silver leaf rubbed mol...
Category

1940s Cubist Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Grace Kelly in a Swimming Pool
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white capture of Grace Kelly smiling in a swimming pool. Grace Kelly, also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of...
Category

1950s Contemporary Unknown Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Religious Italian painter - 18th century figure painting - Saint Monica
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Saint Monica in prayer. 56 x 32 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame (not signed). Condition report: Good state of conservation of th...
Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Unknown Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Expressionist White Flower Still Life
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage abstract flower still life oil painting. Oil on paper. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang an...
Category

1970s Abstract Unknown Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Naturalistic British painter - 19th century landscape painting - Lake view
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (dated 1873) - Mountain landscape with lake. 51 x 77 cm. Old oil painting on canvas, without frame. - Work signed indistinctly and dated lower left: "W. C ... 1873"...
Category

Late 19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oriental Slave Traders - Oil Painting on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental slave traders is a modern artwork realized in the 19th century. Colored oil painting on canvas realized with superb and refined technique following all main philhellenic st...
Category

19th Century Modern Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Framed New England Coastal Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted American impressionist coastal landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso. Image size, 13 by 16 inches.
Category

1930s Impressionist Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rococò Venetian painter - 18th century figure painting - Virgin with Child
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (18th century) - Madonna and Child. 44.5 x 37 cm without frame, 54 x 46.5 cm with frame. Ancient oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame (not s...
Category

Mid-18th Century Rococo Unknown Art

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Canvas, Oil

European Post Impressionist Mountain Valley Town Modern Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
This expressive mid-century landscape painting captures a rugged mountain setting with bold, gestural brushwork and a vivid, modernist palette. Likely painted by a European post impr...
Category

1940s Fauvist Unknown Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Vitnage American Modernist Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 10H by 10L.
Category

1980s Abstract Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Escuela Colonial Siglo XVIII - XIX Óleo sobre cristal - Virgen con niño.
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Muy interesante ÓLEO SOBRE CRISTAL, representando a una Virgen con Niño, de finales del siglo XVIII principios del XIX. Escuela colonial, va con un fino marco de madera dorada al oro...
Category

Late 18th Century Old Masters Unknown Art

Materials

Oil

Rococò French master - 18th century figure painting - Sleeping Diana
Located in Varmo, IT
French Master (18th century) - Sleeping Diana. 95 x 125 cm. Old oil painting on canvas, without frame (not signed). Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of t...
Category

Mid-18th Century Rococo Unknown Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Modern Contemporary painting on canvas, Abstract, Fantasy style, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale Original Abstract Acrylic Painting on canvas in a fantasy abstract style. A unique technique, very colorful. An unusual combination of colors, a flow from sharp to soft s...
Category

2010s Abstract Unknown Art

Materials

Acrylic

Rare Folk Art Hebrew Judaica Carved Gilded Wood Lions Torah Synagogue Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Paint and gold paint on wood Circa early to mid 20th century. This is not signed A treasure from a proud congregation. It is a hand-carved wooden sculpture showing the Tablets of the Law flanked by two Lions of Judah. Their paws held the tablets. Their roaring mouths faced outward, protecting the commandments from threats. In a foliage design with gold and silver paint. Circa 1920-1940's. This Neoclassical, Judaic, Art Deco, Egyptian revival, Shul, Aron Kodesh hand carving, wood with gilding, Hebrew lettering ten commandments sign sculpture, was produced probably in New York. There was a show at the Folk Art Museum titled “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel” That featured these antique magnificent pieces. From gilded lions to high-stepping horses, the sacred to the secular, and the Old World to the New, “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel” traces the journey of Jewish woodcarvers and other artisans from Eastern and Central Europe to America and the unsung role they played in establishing a distinct Jewish culture in communities throughout the United States. The exuberant artworks stand as a testament to a history of survival and transformation and provide a surprising revelation of the link that was forged between the synagogue and the carousel as immigrant Jewish artists transferred symbolic visual elements into this vernacular American idiom. The first major study of this important aspect of the Jewish contribution to American folk art, the exhibition features approximately one hundred artworks and objects, including rare documentary photographs of Eastern European synagogue arks and carved gravestones, sacred carvings, papercuts, and carousel animals. Some of these same Jewish European carvers worked on Coney Island amusement park rides and carousel horses and other carnival and circus carvings.
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Early 20th Century Folk Art Unknown Art

Materials

Metal

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